Aerial railway.



No. 654,687. P'a'tented .luly 3|, |900.

- H. SUTER.

vAERIAL RAILWAY. (Application led Kay 6, 1599.)

(No Model.)

and prevent the car leaving the same.

STATES PATENT Orino,

HEINRICH SUTER, OF KAPPEL, SWITZERLAND.

AERlAL RAILWAY.`

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 654,687, dated July 31,1900. Application filed May 6, 1899. Serial No. 715,837. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HEINRICH SUTER, a citizen of the Republic ofSwitzerland, residing at Kappel, Canton of Zurich, Switzerland, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Aerial Railways, (for which Ihave made applications for patents inSwitzerland, No.

20,859, dated April 8, 1899; in Germany, No.

1,230, dated lApril l0, 1899; in Austria, dated April 1l, 1899; inItaly, No. 45/79, dated April l0, 1899, and in France, No. 275,717,dated April 13, 1899,) of which the following is a speciiication.

This invention relates to improvements in aerial railways, anduhas forits object to provide means whereby an aerial car can be propelled up aninclined ropeway by a balloon and down the same by receiving ballast orreducing the pressure of gas in the balloon. c I attain this object bythe mechanism illus traled in the accompanying drawings, inV WhichlFigure l is a side elevation of an aerial railway constructed inaccordancewith my invention, and Figs. 2 and 3 are respectively adetached side view and an end View thereof on an enlarged scale.

Similar letters refer to sim ilar parts th roughout the several views.

Referring to the gures generally, a are pillars formed with arms Z9, thefree ends of which support the ropeway c, upon which a trolley ol isadapted to run, having a balloon e secured to the top and a carfsuspended from the bottom. The trolley d consists, chiefly, of a plateg, (see Figs. 2 and 3,) furnished at its inner 'side with studs i', uponwhich are mounted four grooved pulleys h, one above the other, two bytwo, adapted to receive between them the ropeway c, which pulleyspartially embrace the said ropeway The outer side of the said plate isfurnished with a stud k, carrying a double-armed lever Z, to the upperend Z' of which is secured the balloon e, and to the lower end 12, bymeans of pulley-blocks m, the car f is suspended. The inner side of theplate g carries also a doublearmed lever n and two brake-jaws 19'192,having grooved faces. adapted to grip the ropeway c when required, thelatter jaw being stationary and formed in guides o, rendered relativelymovable through the medium of the lever fn, which is furnished withchains q, manipulated from the car f, and its shorter arm formed with aslot n2, engagingastud n' on the jaw p'.

It is obvious that owing to the ropeway c being at an incline and thetendency of the balloon to rise vertically the car ol will be drawn bythe balloon up the ropeway and permitted to run down by the reception ofballast or the reduction of gas-pressure in the balloon.

vWhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

l. In an aerial railway worked by a captive balloon, a car-trolleyadapted to run on an inclined rope and guided thereon by grooved pulleysh, arranged. on the said car two by two one above the other, the saidcar-trolley having aplate g to which is fixed at a right angle to thesaid rope, the stud lo carrying a double-armed lever l, to the upper endof which is secured the balloon and to its lower end the car, allsubstantially as set forth.

Y, 2. In the balloon-propelled car-trolley d, the double-armed chainpull-lever fn. fulcrumed to the plate g in combination with twobrakejaws p', p2 having grooved faces adapted to grip the ropeway c, ofwhich p2 is stationary and p rendered relatively movable on the plate g,through the chain pull-lever n, all substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twowitnesses.

HEINRICH SUTER. lVitnesses:

A. LIEBERKNECHT, E. STEIGER-DIEZIKER.

